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The Components Required to Achieve Your Best

To achieve your personal or career best cycling performances, you need to focus on a number of training elements...

We've developed the Same SystemInternational Representatives Are Using…

Any world-class cyclist will tell you that becoming one of the best Track Cyclists in the World involves much more than just riding the bike around the Velodrome.

Much MUCH more…

"I have found as I have got older I really have to work on small things like nutrition, stretching, recovery aspects, the sleep part of it. Training is one part of it. But the recovery and back-up is more important now. I’m not 21 where I can just bounce around and do whatever is asked and turn up the next day and not feel it - I feel it.”

We have recruited passionate staff comprising of International representatives of the highest level in track cycling who are going to offer you opportunities to maximise your performance through specific training plans, tactics, mindset secrets, nutritional advice, strength & conditioning and more.

Our team has reached the heights of Olympic, World & Commonwealth success and offer exclusive advice and support to help you become a master of track cycling success!

To become your best you have to have the right team around you - which isn’t always easy to acquire.

We’ve done the hard work and acquired a gold medal winning team who will support you and ensure you have all the fundamental elements which are mandatory to track cycling success!

Our team not only offers you advice on everything track cycling, they write your training programs, they teach you tactics, help you set up your bike, help you with your nutrition and planning, make sure you’re injury free, ensure you’re strong & fast and motivate you to help you overcome mental barriers and break through to success!

This page is here to help you master the elements of becoming an awesome track cyclist! And by ‘elements’ we mean…

The Elements

Whether you’re an Individual Pursuit specialist or a Sprint Queen or King, it’s going to take more than you’re pure speed and endurance to cross that finish line in front.

Tactics play a huge part in performance and we’ve got the best on board in both disciplines to help you master your ‘cat & mouse’ sprint tactics or time and race a perfect pursuit!

Sprinters require an array of tactics which include skills to ride the sprint from the back position and the front position, from slow and high speed stalls and using technical bikes skills to produce a winning race.

We have recruited the best in the bike-set up business, our mentors, and bike setup coaches to make sure you have the best advice and tips in:

Gaining aerodynamics advantages in bike and body setup to cut back on air drag

Correct power line set up

Correct postural set up for both track sprint and endurance events

Staying injury-free through correct bike set-up

Maintaining a comfortable position whilst maximising your strength, power and speed

It’s also important to note that bike set up and injury prevention go hand in hand with Strength & Conditioning.

Without good core stability, flexibility and functional strength, you are not only putting yourself at risk of acquiring injuries, you’re also going to be unstable, inefficient which will impact on your ability to ride faster.

Having the right mindset and approach to training and competition is paramount to overall success.

Think of these key concepts for a moment:

What do YOU think about on the start line of a race?

Have you reached the optimum arousal level without being too ‘nervous’ or ‘relaxed’?

How do you motivate yourself to train on a cold morning?

Have you mapped out your mental processes and goals to enable you to breakthrough mental barriers on the bike?

Mindset has proven benefits to performance and we are going to give YOU some mental strategies, exercises and guidance which many other world class athletes don’t have access to.

Our Olympic Mindset Coach, Georgia Ridler has worked with Anna & Kerrie Meares, the Australian Cycling Team, Australian Swimming Team who have all been mega successful athletes with awesome mindsets which have allowed them to reach the pinnacle of success.

Georgia is here to help YOU overcome mental barriers, become more focused, visualise and achieve your best performances, and remain healthy and happy mentally in your overall daily training environment.

In today’s day and age with the growth of the food industry and in turn the sports nutrition industry, the ‘how tos’ of eating healthy and correctly for sports performance has never been more challenging.

Getting the right advice and following nutrition guidelines that are tailored to your nutritional requirements is paramount to track cycling performance.

The Track Cycling Academy’s online personal coaching programs are designed to give you ongoing one-on-one support to enable you to stay on track with your cycling and achieve your goals.

The coaching team at the Track Cycling Academy is a collaborative group who work together to assist our clients from all over the world.

We look after athletes from a range of countries including:

Italy

Japan

USA

Canada

England

South Africa

Colombia

France

Germany

Asia

Russia

Australia

New Zealand

Each program is carefully configured and tailored to suit the needs and goals of our clients.

The coaching team is lead by Physiological Performance Analyst Michael Jordan. Michael has an extensive background in elite sport, and is both a former elite athlete and scientist who specialises in performance coaching. Michael coaches current World representative athletes including Former World Champion & Olympic Medallist Shane Perkins.

There are three main elements to injury prevention in cyclists which we like to call ‘The Threatening Three’.

The Threatening Three include:

1 On bike injuries

2 Off bike injuries

3 Coming off bike injuries

1. ON BIKE INJURIES

On bike injuries are common in your major joints which support the levers which drive force through to the pedals and usually come about because of improper bike set up, overuse, muscular tightness, poor stability and functional strength and poor reactive movements.

2. OFF BIKE INJURIES

Off bike injuries are the injuries that occur when athletes complete cross-training activities to support their track cycling, for example, strength & conditioning.

These injuries usually occur as a result of poor technique, poor strength development and training programs that have an accelerated progression that is too fast for the athlete’s development.

3. COMING OFF BIKE INJURIES

Coming off bike injuries is pretty self explanatory, but for those looking for the definition these injuries are as a result of a bike crash whether that be with someone else, something else, or losing control on your own.

These injuries can be sometimes unavoidable, but require proper management to:

a. Heal joints, muscles and wounds.

b. Strengthen the right muscle groups, as it will better support the joints in our bodies by taking the pressure off the skeletal frame, so you can be more resilient to injuries.

Our Injury Prevention expert Mark Stokes is an Olympic Physiotherapist who has worked with the best cyclists in the world. He has the secrets to injury prevention throughout your training program, in the lead up to major competitions and during your major events.

Jump on the internet and you can easily become an expert on Strength & Conditioning overnight across thousands and thousand of exercises, all claiming to offer you the right solutions to your strength deficits.

We can all agree that the internet is a pretty saturated marketplace with information but how do you know that the information available on the topic, the training exercises and S&C programs are right for you?

Good question.

Our Strength & Conditioning team not only have your functional strength gains in mind, they also work with the remainder of the Track Cycling Academy team to ensure that your S&C works together with your training exercises, programs, injury prevention exercises and nutrition plans.

It’s a holistic approach which requires prescriping cycling specific exercises to maximise YOUR strength development which will enhance your cycling development, and in turn - make YOU a faster bike rider.

Strength & Conditioning is a fundamental part of becoming a strong, powerful and fast cyclist, it’s also essential to remaining injury-free.

Think of this concept for a moment: a person with no muscular development versus a person with muscular development.

Strength & Conditioning takes on many forms in both on bike and off bike capacities.

If you don’t include Strength & Conditioning in your program, you are more prone to injuries.

Why?

Because without specific strength development in the muscles that support the major joints in your body, you rely more heavily on your joints and skeletal system which may be weakened due to excessive loading without prior strengthening.

Our team of experts have the best advice from the best athletes and Strength & Conditioning coaches in the world who are all here to help YOU maximise your cycling development in both sprint and endurance disciplines.